Tonight, 8th September 2022, Monkeys with Fire are doing a live game of our recent card game Thunderbirds: Danger Zone. Using characters and...
By Jamie AndersonSeptember 8, 2022In this week’s slightly tenuous FAB Fact, we learn that a company called Anderson Co provided the special effects for Star Trek, and...
By Chris DaleJuly 21, 2022In order to inform the cold and calculating nature seen in SHADO’s Commander Straker, Ed Bishop recalled a documentary about an American missile...
By Chris DaleJuly 13, 2022At the turn of the 1960s, before characters went to sculpting in Four Feather Falls and Supercar, they were first sketched by someone...
By Chris DaleJuly 8, 2022After Tom Scott’s backward driving test video, this FAB Fact looks into the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle and the influence it has on an...
By Chris DaleJune 29, 2022The 2004 Thunderbirds movie drew criticism from many sources, one of which was the popular American film critic Roger Ebert – but he...
By Chris DaleJune 23, 2022You may be wondering how the number 90 cropped up in both Fireball XL5 and Joe 90. It turns out Gerry Anderson simply...
By Chris DaleJune 15, 2022Following the success of various Anderson shows in Japan, at one stage Gerry was approached to pitch a show to a Japanese network...
By Chris DaleJune 9, 2022Japanese gameshow Takeshi’s Castle is a very popular show to this day, and often featured music from other areas of pop culture –...
By Chris DaleJune 2, 2022Many voice artists who leant their voices to the shows of Supermarionation also appeared later on down the line in the live action...
By Chris DaleMay 25, 2022